TABLE 3: ACCESS TO FILARIAL GENOME PROJECT DATA AND RESOURCES

desired information or reagent

access address / route

Filarial Genome Project Resource Center

genome@smith.edu or fax +1 413 585 3826

or mail to Clark Science Center, Smith College , Northampton, MA 01063 USA

sequence similarity search of Brugia EST sequences

* through the Parasite Genome world wide web blast server at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/parasites/parasite_blast_server.html

* through email to blast@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

* through the NCBI www server at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/

text search of Brugia EST sequence records

* through the NCBI dbest www server at http://www2.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/dbST/dbest_query.html

* through the NCBI ENTREZ www server at http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/index.html

retrieval of Brugia EST sequences

* through the NCBI retrieve email server at retrieve@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

* through the NCBI ENTREZ www server at http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/index.html

Brugia EST clones

* contact the investigator listed on the dbest entry by email, fax, phone or mail (See Table 1)

Brugia cDNA libraries

* for aliquots of Filarial Genome Project libraries contact the FGP Resource Center; see also http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/mbx/fgn/net/librarylist.html

* for filtermats imprinted with gridded libraries contact Steven Williams (see Table 1)

Filarial Genome Project reports and other general information

* The Filarial Genome World Wide Web Site, FilGenNet is at http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/mbx/fgn/filgen1.html

* a copy of the site is available at http://math.smith.edu/~sawlab/fgn/filgen1.html for researchers in the Americas

* the filarial-genome email network (address filarial-genome@mailbase.ac.uk) can be joined by sending an email with the message "join filarial-genome firstname(s) lastname" to mailbase@mailbase.ed.ac.uk from your usual mail account, and reviewed on the www at gopher://nisp.ncl.ac.uk:70/11/lists-f-j/filarial-genome